Twitter : the Hi-tech criminals target

Micro Twitter blog site the latest target of cyber-criminals are increasingly find fertile ground in the social network.

False Twitter profile with malicious payload was spotted by security firm Kaspersky Labs.

This should be links to pornographic video, but downloading false version of Adobe Flash installed programs that steal data.

The attack was Cree that the first objective is to Twitter.

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The attack was Cree produced in Brazil, because of the language they used server, which aims to download Trojans and email address used to collect data stolen.

Fake profile name means “beautiful rabbits” in Portuguese. He tries to convince users to download the viewer incorrectly Flash video monitor corresponding video.

This, as well as Kaspersky released details about the two worms aimed at social network sites MySpace and Facebook. Other versions of these worms are beginning to move.

“Worm” in turn victims of zombie computers machines, which are the criminals for sending spam, phishing attacks and data collection.

They disguised as links to YouTube also installed incorrect version of Flash Player.

“Unfortunately, users are very confident messages left by friends on social networking sites, so the likelihood that a user clicks on the link, for example, one very high”, said Alexander Gostev, senior analyst Kaspersky Labs virus.

Only with Microsoft Windows are vulnerable to infections from these malicious programs.

adapted from http://news.bbc.co.uk